Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
